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$12.15 - Sharon Stewart (Published by: Dundurn Press Limited)
Formats: epubs
| Louis Riel devoted his life to the Metis cause. A fiery activist, he struggled against injustice as he saw it. He was a pioneer in the field of Aboriginal rights and land claims but was branded an outlaw in his own time. In 1885, he was executed for treason. In 1992, the House of Commons declared Riel a founder of Manitoba. November 16 is now desig MORE... |
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$9.11 - J.D. Carpenter (Published by: Dundurn Press Limited)
Formats: epubs
| Because business is slow for retired homicide detective Campbell Young's new enterprise, A-1 Investigative Consultants, he decides to take a break — a horse-playing vacation to Florida. No sooner are his plans made, however, than his old friend Priam Harvey approaches him with a complex problem: a young Caribbean jazz musician has been found dead MORE... |
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$10.13 - Louis Hamelin (Published by: Dundurn Press Limited)
Formats: epubs
| Set against a backdrop of grey spruce and muskeg, Cowboy tells the story of Gilles DeschÍnes, a twenty-something who moves from Montreal to Grande-Ourse, a northern Quebec town haunted by the grisly memory of a twelve-year-old murder.Located at the back of beyond, Grande-Ourse is a dismal place with a bleak future. Until, that is, a Quebec consort MORE... |
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 | | A Day with Mr. Jules
$10.13 - Diane Broeckhoven, Liedewy Hawke (Published by: Dundurn Press Limited)
Formats: epubs
| When Alice, an elderly woman, smells the coffee her husband Jules has just made, she gets up. This ritual repeats itself every day, until one morning she finds him lifeless on the sofa in the living room — the coffee hasn’t quite finished filtering through. While Jules slowly turns into a statue that seems to be carved out of marble, Alice remi MORE... |
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$10.13 - Helen McLean (Published by: Dundurn Press Limited)
Formats: epubs
| A man of innate taste and discrimination, Edward has become an art dealer and collector of fine antiques and paintings. During his first six idyllic years he was the centre and focus of his mother's existence. Betrayals and unhappiness in subsequent years have led him to form almost fetishistic attachments to beautiful objects, as a substitute for MORE... |
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$10.13 - Heather Burt (Published by: Dundurn Press Limited)
Formats: epubs
| On a stifling August day, six-year-old Clare Fraser and seven-year-old Rudy Vantwest make eye contact from opposite sides of their street. For an instant they are connected, then each turns away — Clare to the shelter of the garden sprinkler, Rudy to the excitement of his brother’s impending birth. Twenty-five years later, Clare and Rudy, stran MORE... |
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$10.13 - Kim Barry Brunhuber (Published by: Dundurn Press Limited)
Formats: epubs
| High fashion, higher stakes, sex, glamour, and great clothes, Stacey Schmidt gets a taste of all these when he's suddenly propelled from suburban model hell into the garment jungle of today's Toronto. Stacey's part black, part white, and apparently on a fast track to fame, fortune, and all the women he could ever want, though at times it seems as i MORE... |
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$9.11 - Deborah Kerbel (Published by: Dundurn Press Limited)
Formats: epubs
| Fifteen-year-old Mackenzie Hill knows something is up when she arrives home to find her father making a home-cooked dinner, instead of his standard delivery pizza. But nothing prepares her for the bombshell announcement: Mackenzie and her dad, alone since the death of her mother a year ago, are moving to Jerusalem, where her father has taken a posi MORE... |
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 | | After Surfing Ocean Beach
$10.13 - Mary Soderstrom (Published by: Dundurn Press Limited)
Formats: epubs
| In a brief, panicked moment, Rick mistakes the kindness of an apparent stranger for a threatening act, and inadvertently commits murder. He flees the scene, and tries to keep secret from his family the unfortunate event that has occurred. Little does he know that not only has he killed an innocent man, but the man is the son of Annie, with whom Ric MORE... |
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$10.13 - Eva Stachniak (Published by: Dundurn Press Limited)
Formats: epubs
| What are the lies we tell ourselves and others that get us through our lives?In the summer of 1981 Anna is suddenly offered the opportunity to study English at McGill University in Montreal. She jumps at the chance, leaving behind her job, her husband, and her country - Poland. She meets William, a music professor, and falls in love. Back home, mar MORE... |
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